Using Monitor of All-sky X-ray Imagehttp://maxi.riken.jp/top/index.html (MAXI) data, [1]} reported the first detection of GRS 1716–249 on 18 December 2016 after \(\sim \)  23 years. During the MAXI observation on 21 December 2016, the source was observed with a photon index of \(1.62\pm 0.06\)  [2]}. Chandra observations on 06 February 2017 revealed GRS 1716–249 to be in the hard spectral state with a photon index (\(\Gamma ) \sim 1.53\)  [3]}. Based on Swift observations on 27 March and 2 April 2017, [4]} found that the source was transiting to the soft state. However, Swift observations on 2017, May 05 and 11 confirmed that the source had returned to the hard state [5]}. [6]} studied the 2016–2017 outburst of GRS 1716–249 in the radio and the X-ray bands. Those authors reported that GRS 1716–249 underwent a failed outburst because the source never exhibited the canonical high-soft spectral state during this outburst. The radio – X-ray correlation shows that the source is positioned at the radio-quiet `outlier' branch [6]}.
